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S Is for Suicide by Francesca Moroney   A is for Alleluia   She is alive!    In Catholic masses, we pray, Christ has died, Alleluia, Christ is risen.   Today I pray not for ...

S Is for Suicide by Francesca Moroney

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Riddle of the Seeker   How to love a blooming orchard  if you won’t eat its sour apples.    To ask for scented roses if you hate  the shit it feeds on. You know a pond ...

Riddle of the Seeker by Beverly Burch

LAR Online, Poetry

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Embellishment   The Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail is one of the largest jails in the world.  According to Mother Jones magazine, it is also one of the worst.  County, as it’s known, is notoriously ...

Embellishment by Claudia Caplan

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Un-American Review by: Mandana Chaffa Written by: Hafizah Geter Wesleyan University Press, September 2020 $15.95 104pp ISBN: 9780819579812     How do we define ourselves? How are we ...

Review: Un-American by Mandana Chaffa

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Inertia The train hurries past unfamiliar landmarks, and she realizes too late that she was supposed to get off two stops ago, maybe four. She looks around to the door, past bulky bodies in puffy coats lodged together ...

Inertia by Yunya Yang

Fiction, LAR Online

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Bright Clutter Because I read about space junk and glimpsed that image  of a Tesla, mannequin at the wheel as it shot past Mars,   today I see my nephew floating in the ocean. He travels as molecules ...

Bright Clutter by Susan Cohen

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A good run it’s been so far, Julian thinks, this thing between him and Sammie – nights out while ignoring her husband’s calls, trysts in hotel rooms purchased merely for the self-aware absurdity. The brief escape ...

Salsa by Jason Peck

Fiction, LAR Online

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Line of Vision Translation by: Sue Vickerman   Face it, Irene Mattasch, she told herself: your day is over. Nowadays, Arnold Mattasch’s days were all that mattered. These had a start, a midpoint, and an ...

Line of Vision Translated by Sue Vickerman

LAR Online, Translations

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On a morning in October whose most distinguishing trait may be how closely it resembles so many other mornings during this repetitive yet unprecedented time when I’m newly a mother, I’m walking down one of the quiet ...

In Confinement by Courtney Chatellier

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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